by Sean Axmaker | May 29, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
The Expanse: Season One (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD) is the most ambitious original science fiction series created by the SyFy network since their award-winning Battlestar Galactica reboot. Based on the best-selling novels by James S. A. Corey (the pen name of authors...
by Sean Axmaker | May 15, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Cop Rock: The Compete Series (Shout! Factory, DVD), the short-lived mix of gritty cop procedural and musical drama from 1990, was the brainchild of Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law creator Steven Bochco. It’s one of the most unusual TV network shows to play prime...
by Sean Axmaker | Feb 12, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Show Me a Hero (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD), a six-hour HBO miniseries developed by David Simon (The Wire) and William F. Zorzi from the non-fiction book by Lisa Belkin and directed by Paul Haggis (with a subtlety and nuance I didn’t know he had in him), stars Oscar Isaac as...
by Sean Axmaker | Oct 17, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
The Flash: The Complete First Season (Warner, Blu-ray, DVD) – Originally introduced (or more accurately teased) in the second season of Arrow, The Flash” is the CW network’s lighter, brighter, more playful superhero series. Grant Gustin stars as...
by Sean Axmaker | Aug 14, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
The Knick: The Complete First Season (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD) is the project to which Steven Soderbergh committed himself after he announced his retirement from filmmaking. So instead of directing a film, he directed all ten episodes of the debut season of this original...
by Sean Axmaker | Jul 18, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Powers: The Complete First Season (Sony, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD), an adaptation of the graphic novel series by Brian Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, is the first original scripted series for the PlayStation Network. It’s a superhero series from the perspective...